Castro Calls Bush’s Democracy Plan Corrupt
In a blistering speech before hundreds of thousands of people, President Fidel Castro said the democracy President Bush wants to see in Cuba would be a corrupt and unfair system that ignores the poor.
“For Mr. W, democracy only exists where money solves everything and where those who can afford a $25,000-a-plate dinner--an insult to the billions of people living in the poor, hungry and underdeveloped world--are the ones called to solve the problems of society and the world,” Castro said in his continuing attack on Bush’s hard-line policies toward Cuba.
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